Tools for Practice

Integrating a Palliative Approach: Essentials for Personal Support Workers - Workbook This workbook is a companion to the textbook, ‘Integrating A Palliative Approach: Essentials for Personal Support Workers. ’...

Integrating a Palliative Approach: Essentials for Personal Support Workers- Textbook This textbook is written specifically for personal support workers, healthcare assistants, nurse’s aides, community support...

Late-Stage Dementia: Promoting Comfort, Compassion, and Care [Paperback] Modern medicine may offer seemingly promising treatments, but eventually, the impact of Alzheimer's disease and other causes...

Life and Death Matters (Education Resources) Free online educational resources - podcasts, powerpoint presentations, an instructors's manual, and many more resources...

NICE (National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly) NICE is an international network of researchers, practitioners and students dedicated to improving the care of older adults,...

Non-Communicative Patient’s Pain Assessment Instrument (NOPPAIN) A US Veterans Affairs METRIC(TM) Instrument for pain assessment in the non-verbal patient. For more information, contact...

Optimising the role and value of the interdisciplinary team: Providing person-centred end of life care Effective interdisciplinary teamwork, with its emphasis on person-centred communication, is increasingly seen as a way of...

Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia Scale (PAINAD) This pain behavior tool is used to assess pain in older adults who have dementia or other cognitive impairment and are unable...